IMSilman|
What in the world is a chess dream? And how can such a thing help your game?
This series is all about dreams (okay, it’s also about imbalances and patterns), and it’s presented in a question-and-answer format. Some of the positions will be hard to deconstruct, some will be very basic, but all of them should prove instructive once you do your best to solve the puzzles and then care... Read More

GMAlexYermo |
As long as chess players keep messing up rook endgames, GM Alex Yermolinksy will keep teaching them.
GM Yermo promises that if you watch this lesson, you will never lose an endgame similar to the one in the video.
Learn how to save the draw in this tricky position. If you find yourself defending this endgame, you will be glad you watched this video. Read More

PeterDoggers |
A thrilling playoff on Tuesday decided that the final of the Women's World Championship in Sochi will be played between WGM Natalija Pogonina and IM Mariya Muzychuk.
Photo Eteri Kublashvili.
If we follow their titles, GM Harika Dronavalli and GM Pia Cramling should have been the favorites to reach the finals. But, as the saying goes, anything can happen in a playoff, and the non-grandm... | Read More

GMsmurfo |
A while ago, I wrote a post about tie-breaks in chess. It was inspired by a research proposal I submitted on social network formation as applied to round-robin chess, which basically consisted of a lot of mathematics.
One point to come out of it was that no matter which tie-break system one chooses in chess, there are always going to be situations in which the resulting rankings would be consid... | Read More

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